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medieval worlds • no. 16 • 2022
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medieval worlds • no. 16 • 2022, pp. 108-128, 2022/06/30
Although maritime trade along the coast of 4th/10th-century Ifrīqiya has been studied in some detail, less is known about its development in the 3rd/9th century, when the province was under Aghlabid rule. This is partly due to the nature of the information contained in the Arabic historical and geographical sources on which many studies rely. This paper argues that legal texts are an additional source that can expand our knowledge of trade practices in 3rd/9th-century Ifrīqiya and assist our interpretation of the information contained in historical and geographical sources. Using the information given in the legal sources, it offers new findings about maritime trade in 3rd/9th–century Ifrīqiya and argues that the period of Aghlabid rule was key to the economic development of the province.
Keywords: Maritime trade, Ifrīqiya, Aghlabids, Islamic law, North Africa, trade networks, al-Andalus